The Gavelyte, March 1910

Cl~OARVlLLEl COLLEW!J. 47 Curre n t Events. PROF. F. A . JURKA'l'. It is rather bard to write up current events when there are none . Probably the extreme cold weather has kept people indoors so much that they have had no opportunity to manufacture history, except such prosaic events ?.s skulking forth to secure a little provender or a bucket of coal. Over in Englnnd they are staggering under the mom~ntous question of whether to pass the budget first and abolish the veto power of the House of Lords second, or to abolish the veto power of the House of Lords first and pass· the budget second, or to d0 neither of thesP, but abolish . the House of Lords altogether. Of the Irish members, 72 follow Redmond anJ are al– together opposed to the Unionists, and 10 follow O'Brien bt>cause they do not like Redmond. As long as Redmond stands by Asquith the Liberals are 1<ure of a comfortab!P. majority, but everybody knows that their support of the Liberal ministry is Jue to thf>ir hatred and fear of the Unionists, and that the price of their present allegiance is coneessions for Ireland. For this reason they s ·1pport a budget that is particularly oppressive to Ireland, hoping that by lesseni,1g the power of the House of Lords now, they will also at some future time succeed in lessening said budget. In America Taft is preparing for a second term, and, for this reason ttie wounds in the Republican party organization are being patched up as well as may be. Pinchot appeared before the Ballinger investigation committee, and prrsented a lengthy statement, both in ·general and in detail, ·giving his view of what Ballinger's purposes were and are. Ballinger sp·eaks of Pinchot's rema~ks as "inalicious aspersions" which a reference to Webster -will make clear to you. The Philadelphia street-car strike with incidentals attached bas been in progress since Feb. 19. The principal cause is the refusal of the company to recognize the Carmen's union and submit to its dictation as to whom it _ shall employ and discharge. Violence followed on the heels of the strike. ·uars were stoned, wrecked, and burned in the streets. Several people have been killed. The police have been tossed around like straw, and the state militia denounced as imported things. Most of the destruction has been <·auseJ by youths who are reveling in the opportunity to destroy. A num– ber of other trades have joined in a sympathetic strike which goes up and